Smooth non-zero rest-mass evolution across time-like infinity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-02-20 v2
Abstract
It is shown that solutions to Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant can include non-zero rest-mass fields which coexist with and travel unimpeded across a smooth conformal boundary. This is exemplified by the coupled Einstein-massive-scalar field equations for which the mass is related to the cosmological constant by the relation . Cauchy data for the conformal field equations can in this case be prescribed on the (compact, space-like) conformal boundary . Their developments backwards in time induce a set of standard Cauchy data on space-like slices for the Einstein-massive-scalar field equations which is open in the set of all Cauchy data for this system.
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@article{arxiv.1311.0700,
title = {Smooth non-zero rest-mass evolution across time-like infinity},
author = {Helmut Friedrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0700},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
24 pages. New title, section added, typos corrected